Craig McAdams, LMHC

Craig McAdams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working with children and families at the Southwest Family Guidance Center. He has 7 years of experience in the mental health field, including community support work with SWFGC with families in crisis, creating and facilitating a social needs program called Wood County Area Ministries in Ohio, and ample time participating in and helping facilitate after school programs and poverty/cultural immersion trips. Craig has both led and taken part in Vision Quest, Medicine Walks, Sweat Lodge, Traditional Lakota Pipe and Andean Spiritual Cosmology ceremonies.Craig has been trained in addictions work and evidenced-based treatment at the Santa Fe Recovery Center as an intern. His most recent immersion experience was in Peru for three months, working with the children and families in the small village of Maras, creating after school programs and guiding the children through Vipassana based Emotional Regulation techniques. As an alumni and member of the Board of Trustees, Craig is passionate about the mission of the school: Transforming Consciousness through Education. He has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Bowling Green State University. Craig is also committed to a life of service.

"Southwestern College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."

Crystal Hoffman, Graduate 2012

"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at Southwestern enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."

Anna Mills, Graduate 2012

"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012

"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Cynthia Alexis, Graduate 2012

"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."

Eliza Buck, Graduate 2012

"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "

Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation, Fall 2012.

"The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one’s being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul.”

Katherine Ninos, Vice President

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

Denise Moore, Graduate 2013

"I feel so much gratitude for being part of this caring, supporting, reflective, soulful community."